Famous quotes containing the words british, columbia and/or liberal:
“In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, its modern architecture.”
—Nancy Banks-Smith, British columnist. Guardian (London, February 20, 1979)
“Although there is no universal agreement as to a definition of life, its biological manifestations are generally considered to be organization, metabolism, growth, irritability, adaptation, and reproduction.”
—The Columbia Encyclopedia, Fifth Edition, the first sentence of the article on life (based on wording in the First Edition, 1935)
“Since he hath got the jewel that I loved,
And that which you did swear to keep for me,
I will become as liberal as you,
Ill not deny him anything I have,
No, not my body nor my husbands bed.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)